If you're going to use a 8051 you might as well go with a Z80. Heck, go with a classic GameBoy, it's got a built-in display and gamepad. Save the votes to the flash cart memory and you're done.
If your MacBook Pro feels slow since the Mavericks upgrade, try to disable the memory compression feature. It sure helped with my Core 2 Duo system, even with 8GiB of RAM.
No idea, but the summary mentions PCI a number of times, so at least you know you can still use your old PCI cards with it. No idea if it supports AGP though.
How about inserting voting results into the bitcoin blockchain? Some transactions come with comments built-in (ex: "CoinAd.com Payment").
If you can trust the data going into it (vote counts as bitcoin blockchain public comments), I don't know anything else that would be harder to rig right now.
The problem is as follow: 1. Editors weed out bad titles, correct spelling, etc. so if Amazon wants to replace them, they should to do the same job as editors. 2. Doing that, however, means there would be more costs involved and would reduce the number of titles available. 3. Less titles available means a smaller library and less profits for Amazon.
So, why would Amazon want to increase costs and decrease profits?
Even if they don't care about the quality, point #3 still applies.
I don't read much, except technical documents, so I'll move the argument to movies. I know the list of movies is much shorter than books, older special effects didn't age too well, etc. But nonetheless...
I'm in my 40's, so I can appreciate movies from the 1970's and up, but about once or twice a month I like to browse in the "Movie Trailers" channel of my Apple TV to see what's new. And I always find at least half a dozen titles that I'd like to see, but for that half dozen list there's all the rest that really doesn't interest me at all.
The same thing can be applied to videogames.
My point is, however huge the library is, there's some things you'll never want to read, listen, watch or play. I'll pull numbers from thin air and say that every person probably needs 100 authors to get one title he/she wants.
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What did I just say! :p
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A desktop is that thing you put your tablet on when you don't use it.
This is Slashdot. You just have to mention "little Bobby Tables" and we all know what you're talking about. No need to link to xkcd.
No to mention that I've seen 24, 48, 100, 200 and 400 steps per revolution steppers, but I've never even heard of a 300 steps one.
It's nice to read a comment from someone who knows what he's talking about, for a change.
If you're going to use a 8051 you might as well go with a Z80. Heck, go with a classic GameBoy, it's got a built-in display and gamepad. Save the votes to the flash cart memory and you're done.
Never, ever make your reader search for information. If you use acronyms, define what it is the first time you use it, such as "Point of sale (POS)".
What's better: having the author take two more seconds to do that, or let your thousands or readers search for the information?
If your MacBook Pro feels slow since the Mavericks upgrade, try to disable the memory compression feature. It sure helped with my Core 2 Duo system, even with 8GiB of RAM.
Google retaliates by buying X-10.
News at 23.
I still don't know what "PCI" means in this context.
No idea, but the summary mentions PCI a number of times, so at least you know you can still use your old PCI cards with it. No idea if it supports AGP though.
How about inserting voting results into the bitcoin blockchain? Some transactions come with comments built-in (ex: "CoinAd.com Payment").
If you can trust the data going into it (vote counts as bitcoin blockchain public comments), I don't know anything else that would be harder to rig right now.
Hell, an x86 computer with 1MiB of RAM and a 3.5-inch floppy drive is totally overkill.
A simple ATmega328P would be more than enough for this simple task.
In Canada, we use paper voting and we usually know the results of national elections within 24 hours.
Why mess with electronic voting?
Stupid Flanders.
I'm not.
I'm also scared by the fact that this was aired 22 years ago.
Not according to Wikipedia. :p
I wonder how many people will get that reference.
Cash registers have to be on networks these days. But on the Internet? Not a good idea.
If necessary, it should be POS -> server -> Internet.
There's something called "Windows Embedded Piece Of Shit Ready 2009"?
That was CRCulver's argument for editors, not mine.
But... the guy before me got free bread!
The problem is as follow:
1. Editors weed out bad titles, correct spelling, etc. so if Amazon wants to replace them, they should to do the same job as editors.
2. Doing that, however, means there would be more costs involved and would reduce the number of titles available.
3. Less titles available means a smaller library and less profits for Amazon.
So, why would Amazon want to increase costs and decrease profits?
Even if they don't care about the quality, point #3 still applies.
I don't read much, except technical documents, so I'll move the argument to movies. I know the list of movies is much shorter than books, older special effects didn't age too well, etc. But nonetheless...
I'm in my 40's, so I can appreciate movies from the 1970's and up, but about once or twice a month I like to browse in the "Movie Trailers" channel of my Apple TV to see what's new. And I always find at least half a dozen titles that I'd like to see, but for that half dozen list there's all the rest that really doesn't interest me at all.
The same thing can be applied to videogames.
My point is, however huge the library is, there's some things you'll never want to read, listen, watch or play. I'll pull numbers from thin air and say that every person probably needs 100 authors to get one title he/she wants.